EQNext Landmark: Become A Founder And Get Into Alpha And Beta

EQNext Landmark Founders bundles are out now. With any of the founder's packs you will get access to the Beta. If you get the Trailblazer or the Explorer pack you will also get access to the Alpha. Each tier comes with in-game rewards as well.

Founder's Packs:

Settler Pack's: $19.99

Unlimited Closed Beta access

Settler's Flag

Founder's Pickaxe: A special pick combined with a secondary tool.

Forum and In-Game Founder title.

Explorer's Pack: $59.99

Everything from Settler Pack

Alpha access

Explorer's Flag

Ring of Bounty: 10% bonus to all resource gathering.

Mega Pocket: upgrades inventory or vault.

Courtier's Regalia: both genders included.

Tech Sergeant's Gear: both genders included.

Trailblazer's Pack: $99.99

Everything from Explorer Pack, including Settler Pack.

Trailblazer Flag

Mastercraft Bracer: grants a bonus to crafting.

Void Vault: gives you access to a vault without having to craft one first.

Noble's Regalia: both genders included.

Tech Commander's Gera: both genders included.

Four sharable closed beta keys. These are time-limited unlike the founder access.

Name in EQNL credits.

There are also four limited time bonuses to the Trailblazer pack. I will combined the two title bonuses though.

Alpha and Beta Projected Start Dates:

As It stands right now both Alpha and Beta are scheduled for 2014. Alpha is slated to begin on or before February 28th. Beta is scheduled to begin on or before March 31st. Get your guaranteed access while it's available. Non-Founder beta keys have time restrictions. You only get seven days real-time per key from the time of activation.

I really despise this tactic, especially on titles from larger publishers. I understand the logic and now the whole song and dance with all this junk, it just rubs me the wrong way.

SOE have a history of some real scummy practices in their F2P games over the past few years. I'm wary of paying money to guarantee entry into EQN Landmark early, but unfortunately I need to for business purposes. :(

I was just thinking about how I hadn't heard about anything for EverQuest Next in a while and then this article pops up. I won't be buying any of the packs because I'm happy to wait for the full game.

Every beta I've ever participated in has just ruined the game for me either because I fell in love with things a certain way which they decided to change or I simply can't handle the game in an unfinished state and it kills all the hype for me.

I also kind of agree with Mat, lately there is the huge boom in paying to get into things and then being a tester for the game (Steam Early Access for example). While I love to do this for an indie title the idea of a company with huge resources doing this just annoys me.

That's not really the point I was making. Irrespective of what perks they attach to the packs, I think it's wrong of developers -especially AAA studios - to be charging players to do their work for them.

Honestly though most people who do "beta tests" aren't really testing. They're just dipping their toes in the proverbial waters to see if they want to really play the game. Most importantly this is just a sideshoot of the main game from what I understand.